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780s BC

decade

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ1154564 ↗
Source-derived summary

This article concerns the period 789 BC – 780 BC.

Events and trends

783 BC—Shalmaneser IV succeeds his father Adad-nirari III as king of Assyria.

782 BC—Founding of Erebuni Fortress by the orders of King Argishtis I of Urartu at the site of current-day Yerevan, Armenia

782 BC—Death of King Xuan of Zhou, king of the Zhou dynasty of China.

781 BC—King You of Zhou becomes king of the Zhou dynasty of China.

781 BC—Some say the oldest date-verified Chinese recording of a Solar Eclipse happened on June 4th of this year, but others argue that it was in 735 BC.

780–560 BC—The Establishment of The Greek Colonies.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “780s BC” is decade. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through 780s and decade, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 108-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, 780s and decade is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “decade” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1154564. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “780s BC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.